HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Nationstates, Socalled, Dawes Plan
1 Nov 2017
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Script 3: consequences of the first world war. The costs and legacies of the first world war were immense. Not only were there more than 15 million war related deaths and a similar number of permanently wounded men and women, the war caused the complete collapse of the european political and economic order. Estimated war costs ran into the hundreds of billions of dollars; in today"s terms, we are talking about perhaps 10 to 20 trillion dollars. Four empires disintegrated as a result of the war and the turmoil that followed it. Even those states that avoided collapse, like britain, france and italy, were fundamentally shaken by the legacy of the war. Most importantly, for our purposes in this course, the war brought about a rupture in the prevailing 19th century notions of modernity. After the first world war, the constitutional-nationalist path was challenged by alternative visions of what modernity should look like.
